Fall 2017 Anime U.S. & Canada Licenses/Streaming Rights

Alright, I'm making this placeholder thread for now to keep this information where it is. I don't expect this to be very active for a few months since we're not even wrapped with summer yet, but I did process the information and I would like to keep it on hand when I need this, and of course should anytime in the next month or so someone announces more Fall titles nice and early.

By the way, @SpacemanHardy when you get back from vacation could you please unstick the Spring '17 Thread, and then Re-Stick this one? If this is gonna be quiet for a few months I would prefer not to dig through to find it come August or September.

What about Mary and the Witch's Flower? Should Funimation be getting the rights to license in both Dub and Sub versions?

Not really counting movies in this thread, but currently the rights to Mary and the Witch's Flower are up in the air and unknown at this time. I would hope someone like Funimation gets the rights to that one though.

What about Mary and the Witch's Flower? Should Funimation be getting the rights to license in both Dub and Sub versions?

Okay, here's the situation on the ground with Mary and the Witch's Flower as far as we know. Back during the Berlin Film Festival in February, worldwide distribution rights to the film were acquired by a UK distributor called Altitude Films, who turned around and sublicensed the film to Madman in Australia. We don't at present know who has the film in the US, but given their recent power play for the (nearly) entire Studio Ghibli catalog from Disney, the likeliest candidate is GKIDS. The scene for anime movies in North America is poised to be interesting this year, as GKIDS has already seemingly acquired the film Napping Princess. It also looks like neither Funimation nor GKIDS were able to get the rights to A Silent Voice, as an unknown distributor appears to be going through Eleven Arts to distribute the film theatrically. As of right now the only two anime films currently on the US film festival circuit that have no US distributor (announced or implied) are Lu Over the Wall and Night is Short, Walk on Girl; the two films from Masaaki Yuasa released earlier this year.

Rights to that series are confusing but I do believe that Daisuki(?) was the one with rights to Idolmaster stuff. It's also why I didn't instantly put down Idolmaster SideM yet. For those two I'll at least wait until we get actual confirmation.

Alright, I'm making this placeholder thread for now to keep this information where it is. I don't expect this to be very active for a few months since we're not even wrapped with summer yet, but I did process the information and I would like to keep it on hand when I need this, and of course should anytime in the next month or so someone announces more Fall titles nice and early.

The scene for anime movies in North America is poised to be interesting this year, as GKIDS has already seemingly acquired the film Napping Princess. It also looks like neither Funimation nor GKIDS were able to get the rights to A Silent Voice, as an unknown distributor appears to be going through Eleven Arts to distribute the film theatrically. As of right now the only two anime films currently on the US film festival circuit that have no US distributor (announced or implied) are Lu Over the Wall and Night is Short, W

The scene for anime movies in North America is poised to be interesting this year, as GKIDS has already seemingly acquired the film Napping Princess. It also looks like neither Funimation nor GKIDS were able to get the rights to A Silent Voice, as an unknown distributor appears to be going through Eleven Arts to distribute the film theatrically. As of right now the only two anime films currently on the US film festival circuit that have no US distributor (announced or implied) are Lu Over the Wall and Night is Short, W

So are you sure Funimation is going to license the movie, right?

Mary and the Witch's Flower? No. I'm not confident in Funimation acquiring it. This isn't an indictment of their licensing department or brand management, but the cold fact GKIDS has a considerable advantage in the matter since they have a working relationship with many of the people involved in its production during their time at Studio Ghibli. Lu Over the Wall on the other hand is something I could see Funimation with. Honestly I think it has slightly better chances at awards season considering it's the first anime film since 1995 to take home the Cristal du Long Metrage at this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

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